My @BostonGlobeMag debut! I wrote about physical media and why some Gen Zers — like myself — are buying their favorite films on DVD, Blu-ray, and 4K Ultra HD. Many are tired of streaming and want to be able to rewatch beloved movies whenever they want.

Stoughton's public access channel sued the town in April, alleging it has tried to influence operations because it disliked critical programming about a divisive school proposal. Town officials deny the charges, and say the channel violated their contract.

Harvard's resistance to the Trump administration has been aided by an all-out media blitz, with the university helping to spotlight faculty whose research is in peril and dispatching Pres. Alan Garber on a rare national media tour. w/ @brookehauser

WBUR's inaugural festival, which featured speakers such as Ina Garten, Anthony Fauci, and Roxane Gay, brought in roughly $3.7 million. Facing funding threats, can it help reinvent its business in the long-term?

New England public media leaders are urging supporters to rally against federal funding cuts after the White House formally asked Congress to rescind $1.1 billion approved for NPR, PBS, and local stations.

A few GBH updates:.- Layoffs heavily impacted the children’s media and education department, which suffered from the Trump admin canceling the Ready to Learn grant program.- Eight staffers from “The World” radio program were laid off.- Two newsroom employees were laid off.

GBH is laying off 45 employees, about 6 percent of its staff, due to federal funding cuts and rising costs as revenue remains flat. The job cuts come less than a month after it laid off nine employees from its WORLD Channel.

RT @davidfolkenflik: NEWS: NPR and three Colorado public radio stations sue Trump White House over effort to ban federal funding for NPR &….

Players steer an imaginary car through Google Street View in Internet Roadtrip, an online game that launched this month. While "driving" through Maine, users tuned into WBOR, giving the Bowdoin student radio station a legion of new fans across the globe.

RT @hearstcmg: Hearst Connecticut Media Group employees vote to unionize

New: GBH is laying off 10 employees from global news and doc channel WORLD after CPB, which paid for half of the channel's costs, cut funding because it wasn't sustainable. The cuts are unrelated to Trump's efforts to cut federal funding for public media

The Boston Globe was named a finalist in three Pulitzer Prize categories today: editorial writing, illustrated reporting and commentary, and public service. The other New England outlet recognized was GBH's Frontline, which was a finalist for investigative reporting with the AP.

Wild story that shows how even student news outlets can be targeted by scammers who publish AI slop, thanks in this case to a lapsed domain name at Emerson's student-run radio station.

Statement from Corporation for Public Broadcasting CEO Patricia Harrison: "CPB is not a federal executive agency subject to the President’s authority. Congress directly authorized and funded CPB to be a private nonprofit corporation wholly independent of the federal government.".

Geeta Anand, a Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter and most recently the dean of the University of California Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism, has been named as the next editor-in-chief of VTDigger.

RT @BostonGlobe: The executive producer of CBS News' “60 Minutes,” Bill Owens, said that he would resign from the long-running Sunday news….

RT @samanthajgross: NPS wipes Boston LGBTQ+ history in quiet web purge via @tianarochon.

Cutting federal funding wouldn't just threaten smaller public media orgs, such as New England community radio stations. The impact would ripple across public media — putting national shows, shared music licensing costs, and more at risk. My latest:

RT @BenMullin: scoop: NPR is mobilizing. In response to White House plan to rescind federal funding, NPR tells member stations it is pushin….

The National Trust for Local News, which owns most of Maine's daily newspapers including the @PressHerald and the @sunjournal, has hired @TheBuffaloNews publisher Tom Wiley as its next CEO.